Chunian, which is about 40 miles from Kasur city, also has a small industrial area. Kasur is known for its tanneries and small industry.

But police officials dismiss claims of gangs selling violent videos online. Many theories have been offered for why Kasur has a bigger problem than other places - people have blamed pornography, organized criminal gangs who sell videos of the crimes on the internet, social divisions and prostitution linked to growing cities. An antiterrorism court sentenced him to death in February 2018. After 12 days, the police arrested a 24-year-old neighbor named Imran Ali. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, vowed never to let such attacks occur again. Zainab’s murder had also incited days of angry riots in Kasur, and the government and leading political parties, including Mr. The men made videos of the abuse to either sell underground or use to extort money from victims’ families. In 2015, a gang of men was arrested after reports emerged that they had sexually abused at least 200 children in a rural area of the district. Before her, 12 other child rape cases had been reported within roughly a mile radius. In January 2018, Zainab Amin, 7, was raped and killed in Kasur. Inam Ghani, the additional inspector general of the Punjab police, said that Kasur is a peculiar case “because there have been serial pedophile murders.”

“It is not easy to earn a living these days.” “Should we worry about earning our livelihood or worry about children’s whereabouts?” said Mr. For the parents, the stress was one more worry piled on already difficult lives.

Unstable by Muhhamed Faizon